You may have noticed your first gray hair in your 40s or 50s. Or perhaps you went gray earlier or later. Here, Andrea Klausner untangles fact from fiction about those silvery locks:
http://www.berkeleywellness.com/article/gray-hair-untangling-fact-fiction.
Book Title: Exploriring the Nutrition and Health Benefits of Functional Foods.
*Part of the Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies Book series.
Chapter 6 Title: Herbal Benefits of Tea.
Chapter 6 Abstract:
This chapter per the authors will introduce the reader to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and shall discuss herbalism as a subset of CAM. Particular emphasis will be placed on herbal teas or rather infusions and decoctions used in disease therapy. This chapter will enumerate the different types of teas and shall use maps, graphs, and other tools to illustrate location, consumption, use and availability. Furthermore, the authors will highlight potential health benefits, recent studies (in vitro, in vivo) undertaken by research scientists to validate efficacy, and shall call for more research (clinical data management, clinical trials etc.) and support for ongoing work in this area of expertise. The authors shall place a spotlight on the plant family, Asteraceae, and their herbal plants of interest, Artemisia annua and Brickellia cavanillesii. Extensive studies have been performed to determine the therapeutic potential of Brickellia cavanillesii plant at Ernest E. Smith laboratory, The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA.
Chapter 6 Authors:
Etetor Roland Eshiet, Sustainable Energy Environmental and Educational Development (SEEED), USA.
Ernest E. Smith, Texas Tech University, USA.
Citation: Eshiet ER and Smith EE (2016) Herbal Benefits of Tea In HU Shekhar, ZH Howlander, & Y Kabir (Eds.). Exploring the Nutrition and Health Benefits of Functional Foods. IGI Global.
Book Release Date: August, 2016.
Copyright: 2017.
ISBN: 9781522505914.
Abstract
Obesity and weight management are two words that generate controversy in academe, and food and healthcare practice. Although, healthcare practitioners employ lifestyle modification, bariatric surgery and pharmacotherapy as primary weight management programs, these methods may have exacerbating challenges. In many societies around the globe, there appears to be an increase in the use of herbal products in weight management. Tea preparations (infusions, decoctions) are arguably the most prevalent form of administering herbal extracts. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers herbal plants and its supplements foods, not drugs. These foods may provide the much needed alternative resource, and may have biologic benefit in weight management therapy; herbalism may enjoy expanding acceptability and utility by the food and healthcare industry if properly validated, standardized and regulated.
Key words: Obesity; Weight management; CAM; Herbalism; Biologic; Antihyperlipidemic; Functional Foods.
Citation: Eshiet ER (2016) Obesity and Weight Management: The Efficact of Herbal Products as Therapeutic Agents. Nutr Food Technology 2 (3). Doi. Http://dx.doi.org/10.16966/2470-6086.122.
The links to the article are as listed below:
https://sciforschenonline.org/journals/nutrition-food/article-in-press.php.
https://sciforschenonline.org/journals/nutrition-food/NFTOA-2-122.php.
https://sciforschenonline.org/journals/nutrition-food/article-data/NFTOA-2-122/NFTOA-2-122.pdf.
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